Daily Archives: September 11, 2007

OK….you ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY MUST save these dates and times. Ready? Monday (of course, that’s why we called it Meerkat ‘Mondays’!), September 17th Monday, September 24th Monday, October 1st ALWAYS at 5 p.m. SLT (that would be 8 p.m. EST) OK, now you’ve save the date, marked it on your calendar, saved it to your PDA,

***Here’s another possible double-post….heh….NO ONE told me that WordPress wasn’t quite ready to roll yet! LOL*** Our very own Beth Kohnke (Beth Knittle in RL) will be presenting a FABULOUS workshop at DEN in SL. We hope you’ll be able to join us. Differentiating Instruction and Discovery Streaming Please join us for a discussion on

***This may be a double-post for some. I had posted this to WordPress only to find out that the transition over hadn’t been made yet! OH NO!!!! LOL*** Here’s a BIG hello to our latest DEN in SL Leadership Council Member, Geekie Kidd, who will be our DEN Guide Coordinator. Geekie Kidd, a relative newbie

In order to promote the upcoming ‘Building It Bigger’ webinar on September 13th, our DEN in SL LC Chair, Riptide Furse create this towering structure outside the DEN in SL Headquarters. Now that you’re sufficiently impressed (I know I was!), here’s a little more information about the upcoming webinar…. Build It Bigger with Danny Forster!

[This was cross-posted on the DEN PA TypePad blog.] I hope that everyone is enjoying a fantastic start to the school year. I just wanted to remind PA that DEN is hosting a webinar later this week that is intended for teachers to attend with their students. Last year, my classes joined hundreds of other

We have a new name…. “Discovery Streaming” and a new way to log in…. soon you will go to www.discoveryeducation.com to log in (you actually can right now) When you log on this way you can see all the products that your district has signed you up for… basically a single sign on 🙂 greyed

Don’t forget that next Thursday, September 13th at 1 PM (EST) is the Discovery Connect webinar with Danny Forster, host of Build It Bigger. If you go to the Build it Bigger website you can show your students a webisode or two from the show to get them ready for a fun, interactive experience with

One of the (many) basic, fundamental, and very important things I’ve picked up from the Center for Digital Storytelling’s philosophy is finding/extracting the story in a flurry of thoughts and facts. I got a graphic reminder of that this weekend when my wife and I traveled out to Grand Lake, Colorado to see our

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